Exploration

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	EXPEDITION TITANIC: BOW EXPLORATION Some spectacular footage of the bow taken by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory team with cameras mounted on Phoenix's expertly piloted ROV. ...
	FIRST VIDEO FROM EXPEDITION TITANIC
thewesterlysun.com	FROM MYSTIC TO THE MEDITERRANEAN Best known as the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, Ballard is also the founder and president of the Sea Research Foundation's Institute for Exploration. He visited the aquarium Thursday to kick off the new voyage of the Nautilus and to boldly go where no one has gone before......	28th July 2011
bbc.co.uk	RACE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN: CAMERON Hollywood director James Cameron has long been passionate about ocean exploration. He pioneered new underwater filming techniques while making The Abyss......	22nd February 2012
scientificamerican.com	RESEARCHER HOPES TO DEVELOP VIRTUAL TITANIC EXPLORATION Detailed maps of the debris field, high-definition images and online gaming technology could lead to virtual expeditions to the Titanic site...	12th April 2012
Bizjournals.com	FAMED OCEAN EXPLORER SPEAKS TO STUDENTS Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the sunken Titanic luxury liner cruise ship in 1985, spoke to a group of Houston Independent School District students Thursday about his exploration adventures....	23rd February 2010
Texas A&M The Battalion	TITANIC DIVER DETAILS EXPLORATION OF DOOMED SHIP Retired Navy Capt. Alfred McLaren spoke Thursday night on his deep sea explorations of the Titanic, In his presentation, â€œReturn to RMS Titanic 1999 and 2003â€ McLaren discussed the past, present and possible future of the ship....	20th April 2010
Redding.com	RODRIGUEZ SPREADS WEALTH, HELPS TURTLE BAY RAISE 'TITANIC' Will Redding developer Rod Rodriguez float Turtle Bay's boat?Rodriguez's Shasta Enterprises is the "presenting sponsor" for Turtle Bay Exploration Park's "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" (Feb. 24-May 28) that park CEO and former Redding City Manager Warren green-lighted at a cost of $250,000....	13th February 2007
	DISCOVERY TSX: TITANIC PREVIEW The Titanic finally arrives in New York City at the Discovery Times Square Exposition. Relive Titanic's fateful 1912 maiden voyage and take on the identity of a Titanic passenger as you explore magnificent reconstructions of the Ship's interior. Discover how the 'unsinkable' Ship met its fate and connect with the passengers and crew, as you view haunting personal artifacts recovered from the wreck....
bbc.co.uk	TITANIC WRECK GETS UNESCO PROTECTION The wreck of the Titanic is to come under the protection of the United Nations cultural agency Unesco. The agency says more than 700 divers have visited the site, 4,000 meters underwater off the coast of Canada, often taking artefacts back with them. As it will soon be 100 years since the Titanic sank, the ship will fall under the 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. The convention aims to prevent unscientific or unethical exploration. ...	5th April 2012
irishtimes.com	TREASURE HUNTERS SAY IRISH WATERS HAVE VALUABLE WRECKS THE US marine exploration company which has located a British wartime shipwreck with £150 million worth of silver in the Atlantic has also been surveying southwest Irish waters where there are a number of "commodity" wrecks. The Naval Service has confirmed that it notified the company's research ship Odyssey Explorer some weeks ago that it should notify the Irish authorities of its activities. It said the Naval Service came across the vessel surveying some 25 miles west of the Blasket islands, in Co Kerry on August 2nd. Under international law, a ship undertaking scientific research should inform the relevant state, and should be licensed to tow a sidescan sonar in territorial waters....	28th September 2011
New York Times	EXPLORER TO SEEK ORINOCO'S SOURCE Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice Is Now at Para With His Wife and Flier Hinton --- VOYAGE TO TAKE 2 YEARS --- Seaplane and Radio Will Be Used to Penetrate Hitherto Uncharted Region --- Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice,...	12th August 1924
EurekAlert	WOODS HOLE ENGINEERING TEAM FROM TITANIC DISCOVERY TO BE HONORED The underwater research vehicle Jason Jr., which gained international attention for its exploration inside the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic in July 1986, and its engineering team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will be honored July 14 with the 2006 GlobalSpec Great Moments in Engineering award.The honor comes on the 20th anniversary of the Institution's second expedition to the wreck of Titanic, nine months after the initial discovery by an unmanned towed camera system named Argo. At the time the Deep Submergence Laboratory (DSL) at WHOI, part of the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, was developing the dual vehicle Argo/Jason system for deep ocean exploration. Jason Jr. was a prototype meant to test design concepts for the planned and much larger remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason, which is controlled from the surface via a miles long cable....	12th July 2006
New York Times	OUTING IN NEW HANDS The Publication Purchased by Caspar Whitney and Ten Other Men --- Caspar Whitney, for many years connected with the Harpers as writer on sporting topics, announces that he and ten other men have bought the publication known as Outing, ...	15th February 1900
New York Times	ALEXANDER RICE, EXPLORER, WAS 80 Physician and Author Dies---Made Trips on the Amazon and Taught Navigation --- Special to The New York Times --- NEWPORT, R. I, July 23---Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, explorer of the Amazon, author and member of the summe...	24th July 1956
MSNBC	SCIENTISTS STUDY 3D PHOTO MAP OF THE TITANIC WRECK SITE Alan Boyle Experts are still analyzing their newly made 3-D maps of the Titanic shipwreck site, but they can already see that the great ship’s breakup was messier than most folks, including "Titanic" film director James Cameron, may have thought. “...	24th September 2010
New York Times	MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN A PARIS STORE New York and Newport Society Woman, Wife of Explorer, Noted for Philanthropy --- A SURVIVOR OF TITANIC --- Lost First Husband and Son in Disaster---Gave Library to Harvard University --- Special Cable to THE ...	14th July 1937